Playlist: Elizabeth Shepherd

Elizabeth Shepherd’s latest disc, the quiet soul-jazz sizzler Rewind, was recorded and arranged while she was awaiting the birth of her daughter Sanna. She was eight months pregnant for the photo shoot. Sanna, Shepherd wrote in the liner notes, “is inextricably linked to the life of this album.”

And life there is in the tastefully-arranged soundtrack to the impending arrival. The funky, keyboard-driven strut of Cole Porter’s Love For Sale, the bass-and-cello driven waltz Les amoureux des bancs publics, the excellent stripped-down cover of Cannonball Adderley’s Sack of Woe and her duet with Denzal Sinclaire on Duke Ellington’s Prelude to a Kiss are among the dozen reasons to surrender.

The former Torontonian, who recently moved to Montreal, will give these songs a live airing in her newly-adopted home Nov. 16. While we wait, she gave us a list of tracks to check out.

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